- The vaccine mandate defund amendment lost because four GOP Senators, Lindsey Graham, Mitt Romney, James Inhofe and Richard Burr chose to miss the vote.
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Posted on 03/02/2022 6:48:38 AM PST by Kaslin
resident Biden has declared victory over COVID. Congress should take him at his word and defund all of the vaccine and mask mandates now.
Just two weeks ago, Congress received 25 million emails urging them to defund the vaccine mandates in the Continuing Resolution to fund the government. Unfortunately, the Senate failed to do the job by voting 46-47 against a Senator Mike Lee vaccine mandate defund amendment and 44–49 against a separate amendment to defund mask requirements by Senator Ted Cruz.
The vaccine mandate defund amendment lost because four GOP Senators, Lindsey Graham, Mitt Romney, James Inhofe and Richard Burr chose to miss the vote.
Now, with every member of Congress able to be in the Capitol mask free as Democratic pollsters cry to their clients that they need to get beyond COVID for their political survival in November, defunding the enforcement of President Biden’s vaccine mandates in the upcoming Omnibus funding bill must be a Congressional priority.
Even the far left Fairfax County School District, where many federal bureaucrats send their children, have ended their mask requirements. The Washington, D.C. government, a vanguard of wokeness, has ended their draconian vaccine passport policy that prevented the unvaccinated from eating in restaurants or going into hotels, even as they were allowed to work in those same establishments.
But unless Congress defunds the enforcement of the regulations and Executive Orders mandating vaccinations, these onerous restrictions will linger in our health care systems, military, federal civil service and defense contractors like the sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of employees.
The enforcement of many of these edicts remains unresolved in the federal Courts but the threat to people’s livelihoods will remain so long as the regulations and Executive Orders remain on the books unless Congress defangs them through refusing to provide funding for their enforcement.
This should not be controversial. With Democrats desperate to move on from COVID, there should not be a single vote in the House or Senate against Congress asserting their rightful power of the purse by ending funding for the enforcement of these mandates. Not one.
As rare as it might be, this is one time when both those who supported and opposed the mandates should be able to agree that they should be ripped out by the roots rather than being left on the books like dangling live electrical wires waiting to shock unsuspecting passersby who inadvertently brush up against them.
At this time in history, we need every health care worker working. We need every member of our armed services ready to jump into action. We need our federal contractors planning to potentially ramp up production of military equipment and materiel. What we don’t need is for leaders in these areas to worry about the application of arbitrary and out-of-date health rules. We don’t need those who work in these fields looking over their shoulders out of concern for their livelihood due to their religious or health-related choice to not get vaccinated.
It is time to move on from the COVID fear campaign and once and for all end the vaccine and mask mandates. The Omnibus funding bill is being negotiated right now and will be completed and voted on by March 11. Ending these ill-conceived and overreaching regulatory remnants should be a no-brainer.
Just in time for it to become a non-issue in November. Pretty smart. We’re asleep at the switch.
Chip Roy tried to rally enough repubs to block a spending bill that would have defunded the vax mandates but there's too many RINOs in DC.
The stabs should be withdrawn, of course (never should have been issued), and prosecutions begun.
Amen to that!
Nelson
Defund my a##! Time to get the grand jury prepared for the Nuremberg trials. Quit pussyfooting around on this.
No way - too many people are making $$$$ on importing and distributing masks - warehouse guys have millions of masks stored and getting paid top fees.
Follow the $$$
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Bush League Republicans blocked it.
We MUST STOP re-electing Assistant Democrats.
lindajust Monday Emperor Lardbutt of Illinois dropped the mask mandate. He tried to keep the kids masked but the court rejected his appeal.I am warning people that the day after the election (democrats have run this state since the 1920s) there will be a sudden “spike” in Covid cases and he’ll order everybody to mask up again. “It’s for your own safety”.
Linda is a tranny clown.
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